Use a Windows Repair USB Drive or Disc to Fix Your Broken PC

Having the whole operating system on disc isn’t necessary if you just need to repair your Windows installation. Recovering or repairing your current installation of Windows is favorable because most recovery software that comes with brand name PCs will wipe your PC back to factory settings.You should have a repair disc on hand to deal with the following situations:

You’ve made a change to your PC and it now won’t boot into Windows

You get a message such as NTLDR is missing but your hard drive has not failed

You get a virus on your PC and need command line access to fix the issue

Windows starts to boot and then your PC power cycles

In this guide:

How to make a Windows 7 repair disc yourself

How to make a Windows 7 repair USB drive

How to boot from a disc/USB drive and use it to repair your PC

Note: A repair disc cannot be used to install Windows and provides no functionality beyond that of a Windows installation disc. If you already have an installation disc, you can use that for system recovery.

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